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"An' ye did?" asked Coolin, open-mouthed and staring; for never had he seen Connor with aught on his face but a devil-may-care smile. "Ordered away we was next avenin', an' sorra the glimpse of Mary Haggarty to me for Headquarters is a lady that will not be denied. Away we wint overseas.
Out I wint round beyont the Pint Pescade, an' off wid me close an' into the say. Och! but it was plisint! Well, just as I was coming out, who should I see on the rocks above me but a big thief of an Arab? I knew at wance that if I was to putt on close he'd guess, maybe, who I was, so I came out o' the wather an' ran straight at him naked meanin' to frighten him away like.
Let us go in. An' in they wint. "Hinnissy, th' sight that met their young an' unaccustomed eyes was enough to shock even a lady lookin' f'r throuble. Th' air was gray an' blue with th' fumes iv that heejous weed that has made mankind happy though single f'r four hundred years, an' that next to alcohol is th' greatest curse iv th' sons iv Adam.
They stayed up late dhrinkin' an' carousin' an' dancin' jigs till wurruds come up between th' Kerry Mickrobes an' thim fr'm Wexford; an' th' whole party wint over to me left lung, where they cud get th' air, an' had it out.
'Mick Leamy, sor, sez I, 'from Misther W. wid the sparks. 'Oh, sez he, 'thin come in. I wint in. 'They're in here, are they? sez he, takin' the bag. 'They are, sor, sez I, 'an' Misther W. sez I'm to have me reg'lars. 'You shall, sez he. 'What shall we say, now afinnip? 'Fwhat's that, sor? sez I. 'Oh, sez he, 'I s'pose ye're a new hand; five quid ondershtand that?"
It was about three o'clock in the mornin', sor, and I was outside one o' them clubs just below Piccadilly, when one o' them young chaps come out wid three or four others, all b'ilin' drunk one was Lord Bentig jumps into a four-wheeler standin' by the steps an' hollers out to the rest of us: 'A guinea to the man that gits to Trafalgar Square fust; three minutes' start, and off he wint and we after him, leavin' wan of the others behind wid his watch in his hand."
"You didn't see that, Biddy?" "No, ma'am I didn't see it; how could I, through the door? but I heerd it, plain enough. I heerd the poor cratur fall for dead amongst the tables and chairs I did, Mrs Kelly and I heerd the big blow smash agin her poor head, and down she wint why wouldn't she? and he, the born ruffian, her own brother, the big blackguard, stricking at her wid all his force!
'But I've med up me mind not to lave annywan talk to me about Dewey, I says, 'unless, I says, 'he subscribed th' maximum amount iv th' subscription, I says, 'thirty-eight cints, I says. 'So I'll thank ye to tip-toe out, I says, 'befure I give ye a correct imitation iv Dewey an' Mountjoy at th' battle of Manila, I says. An' he wint away."
Them fellers were ownly the stevedores, hired at saxpence the hour to load the ship; an' they wint off in a brace av shakes, as you must have sayn for y'rsilf, whin their job was done! No, me bhoy, them weren't the proper sort av shellbacks.
He put his hands to his face, an' wint back to th' house. "But she wint bumpin' on, Jawn, till she come up be th' house. Father Kelly was standin' out in front, an' ol' man Donahue was layin' down th' law to him about th' tariff, whin along come th' poor foolish girl with all th' kids in Bridgeport afther her. Donahue turned white. 'Say a pather an' avy quick, he says to the priest.
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